Fall 2020 Childrenâs Flying Starts By PW Staff | Dec 18, 2020
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.
Legendborn, a mash-up of Arthurian legend and Black girl magic set in the contemporary South.
As a college senior, Chloe Gong, author of
These Violent Delights a fantastical take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set in 1920s Shanghai is one of PW’s youngest ever Flying Starts.
Cemetery Boys, one of the year’s standout YA novels.
Elatsoe, a supernatural mystery starring an asexual Lipan Apache teenager.
Author-illustrator Jashar Awan’s debut picture book,
What a Lucky Day!, which follows a group of animals as they confront their stereotypes and misconceptions of each other, has a timely message.
By Michael M. Jones | Dec 18, 2020
For as long as she can remember, Van Hoang has been a writer, so the release of
Girl Giant and the Monkey King (Roaring Brook) is the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition. “When I was a kid, I had this notebook,” she says. “I was obsessed about not having enough pages, so I’d write these stories and then go back and erase them, so I’d have more room to keep writing. We probably had plenty of notebooks, but I was afraid of running out of paper.”
Inspired by work such as Patricia C. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles and Neil Gaiman’s